Category: Suburban Opinion

  • If cell phone bill passes, who’ll police the police?

    CODA GREG BEAN State Sen. Richard Codey has introduced a bill that would make New Jersey’s penalties for talking on a cell phone while driving the strictest in the nation, but here’s my question: If this thing passes, who’s gonna arrest cops for talking on their cell phones while they drive? I’m not joking about…

  • Dog returned safely, thanks to three ‘angels’

    It’s been a few weeks since I met three “angels” who made my birthday a happy one. Recently, it was my 69th birthday. I took my beloved dog in the back of my complex in Sayreville and removed his leash so he could stretch his legs and run around freely and safely in the enclosed…

  • Speak up now to save high school athletic association

    It is sad that an elected politician has made his major political priority an attack of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With all of the problems confronting our society in local, county, state and federal governments, state Assemblymen John Burzichelli (DGloucester) continues his relentless effort to destroy the NJSIAA in an attempt to…

  • Dorothy Frances Skolny Riepl

    Mrs. Riepl, 90, of Old Bridge, died June 20, 2010, in Arnold Walter Nursing Home, Hazlet. Her husband, Edward, died in 1975. Surviving are four sons, Robert, and his wife, Judy, of Crystal Lake, Ill., Raymond, and his wife, Pat, of the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, Richard of Roseland and Ronald, and his…

  • Patricia Wills

    Mrs. Wills, 75, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died July 4, 2010. Surviving are her husband, Edward Wills; three daughters and their husbands, Karen and Jim Hyde of Tempe, Ariz., Nancy and Tim McCarthy of the Morgan section of Sayreville and Kathy and Kevin Harty of Chandler, Ariz.; a son, Edward J. Wills, and…

  • Claire L. Pervell

    Mrs. Pervell, 84, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died July 4, 2010, in Oak Tree Nursing Home, Edison. A Democratic County Committeewoman for more than 35 years, she served on the New Jersey Tercentenary Committee. She founded the Sayreville Arts Council and served as its executive director for 27 years. Surviving are her husband,…

  • Leonard S. Blaszka

    Mr. Blaszka, 68, of Sayreville, died July 1, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement, he was employed by E.I. DuPont Photo Products, Parlin section of Sayreville, where he worked for 30 years in the shipping department. After that, he worked for Middlesex County Courts and Amboy National Bank,…

  • Vera Chrapowicki Nowicki

    Mrs. Nowicki, 91, of Eugene, Ore., formerly of East Brunswick, died July 6, 2010, at home. Prior to her retirement, she was the owner and operator, with her late husband, Mikolai, of European Homemade Provisions, East Brunswick, for more than 35years. Her husband, Mikolai “Michael,” died in 1997. Surviving are two daughters, Alinka Mc Mullen,…